iGaming Weekly | May. 19, 2024
Dive in to this weeks iGaming recap, with new partnerships, new games, lots of news and more!
After an eventful week in the gambling industry, we closed it off with the Fury vs Usyk title fight. As expected, sportsbooks saw increased volume as fans raced to bet on their respective picks. After analysing the data, it is clear Shuffle saw the largest relative increase in volume for that event compared to it's competitors. I'd wager that Shuffle is now the preferred sportsbook of choice for Crypto Twitter, closely followed by Stake.
Industry Overview
Casino News
- Gamdom experienced a period of downtime on May 16th due to negotiating with CloudFlare’s competitor Fastly, according to Gamdom founder Felix.
- Duelbits has completed the signing of notorious MMA star Conor McGregor.
- MetaWin has started a VIP acquisition program, offering players who have achieved a high rank on competitor sites incentives to come play on their site.
- Shuffle’s $SHFL has been listed on the exchange Backpack, with a week-long trading promotion accompanying it.
Traditional Gaming
- Following their partnership with data analytics firm Angstrom, BetMGM saw an increase of over 209% on bets placed in the MLB Home Runs market compared to last year.
- Caesars opened their first offering in Nebraska with Harrah’s Columbus, right outside of Omaha, the state’s capital.
- United States commercial gaming revenue set a quarterly record in Q1 2024, grossing $17.67 billion dollars.
- The United Kingdom Department of Culture, Media, and Sport has set new favorable rules for land-based casinos, helping them deal with the rise of online gambling.
Decentralised Casinos
- The new Blast multiplier increases points earned on GambleFi, YOLO is the leader in the Blast ecosystem for GambleFi.
- WINR has integrated into the Dongo AI platform, a crypto research team that specialises in real-time data and AI insights.
- Fantom’s Sonic node upgrades are set to be completed by next week, assisting PlusBet to settle their users' transactions faster.
Aggregators & Providers
- Hacksaw has partnered with provider Come On! once more, providing Hacksaw content to Sweden, Ontario, and now the Netherlands.
- Evolution has expanded it's Video Poker offering to the United States, with the classic offering going live in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
- Relax Gaming has expanded further into Latin America, partnering with Chilean brand Betsala.
- Softswiss has improved their presence further in Europe, this time in Bulgaria partnering with Topwin . bg.
New Releases
- Pragmatic: Dwarf & Dragon, Rise of Pyramids, Heroic Spins
- Hacksaw: Slayers Inc, Jelly Slice, Space Zoo,
- Push: Cats of Olympuss
- BGaming: Chicken Rush
Upcoming Releases
- Hacksaw: Cursed Crypt, Junkyard Kings
- No Limit: Loner, Deadwood R.I.P, Beheaded
- Relax: Line Busters Dream Drop
- BGaming: Panda Luck, Adventures, Gold of Minos
Miscellaneous
- Pump . Fun, a Solana platform that allowed users to launch new memecoins on the network, was exploited for over $1.9 million USD this past week.
- Multiple global investment firms have disclosed their investments in Bitcoin ETF’s, including Morgan Stanley, Millennium Management, and JPMorganChase.
- Vitalik has proposed Ethereum protocol EIP-7706, a new gas model that would introduce a transaction type that offers max_basefee and priority_fee as a vector.
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